• Got the countertops in my kitchen installed
• Bought a kayak
• Drove to Shunk

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My friend Damon Schreiber and his son Makoto came to visit for a day on their way from Toronto to Egg Harbor, WI. We took the L downtown and went to the aquarium.

4th of July...

I bought 2 CDs today: Dido - "No Angel" and Kirsty MacColl - "Tropical Brainstorm". Dido's album has a great groove to the whole thing, but Kirsty MacColl's album is definitely the best album i've purchased all year. Great songs, great sounds. I heard about this album from a review on NPR.

Pups.

I went with the White/Fords to the Cirque dd Soleil performance of "Dralion" in a big tent in the United Center parking lot.

Rob was messing around with my camera.

I liked "Tropical Brainstorm" so much that i wanted to buy other Kirsty MacColl albums, particularly "Electric Landlady" which has the song "Walking Down Madison" on it. I thought about buying that album back when it was first released in the early 90s but i never did, and now it's out of print in the US, so today i bought her "Galore (Best of)" album, which has "Walking Down Madison" on it.

Sailing with the Lauciusesses. I bought 3 CDs today: Paul Simon - "Negotiations and Love Songs (1971-1986)", Jurassic 5 - "Quality Control", and Kirsty MacColl - "Electric Landlady", which i got as an import from Amazon.com. The J5 album got me totally hooked on them.

At the lake...

Teco is pretty content in a boat. Seera's nervous. Note the tail way down.